Playdead’s new release Inside is the best horror game of 2016 and I do not say that lightly. To explain anything about the game would be an incredible disservice both to it and to everyone who has not gotten a chance to experience it, but suffice to say, the art direction and atmosphere and subtle storytelling are achingly gorgeous and haunting and will worm their way into your brain like nothing else. Playdead’s previous game Limbo was fantastic on its own, but you were to compare the two, Limbo is a delicious and skillfully prepared appetizer, while Inside is a once-in-a-lifetime four-course gourmet meal. I literally cannot stop thinking about this game and getting to experience it was an incredible gift.
Please play inside. Watch a walkthrough if you don’t have the cash/are chicken about playing horror games, but please buy the game if you can because it is an amazing experience and the devs absolutely deserve the money for it.
How many times before Finding Dory was an octopus’s camouflaging even portrayed in pop culture at all?? I’m sure it’s happened, but of the thousands of octopuses I’ve probably seen in cartoons, movies and games I’m drawing a blank. It’s at least extremely rare, and that’s so absurd considering how amazing those abilities really are. Hank’s are only barely exaggerated.
Whenever a cartoon calls for an animal that can turn almost magically invisible, they go for a chameleon, which can do absolutely no such thing. Up to now we have been practically hiding from children how incredible cephalopods are and I’m so happy this is such a major part of a movie almost every kid is going to see now.
